GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cuban athlete who set the world record for the high jump in 1993 (6,9)

8 A common, low-growing evergreen shrub that grows in carpet-like thickets (7)

9 Ninth month of the Islamic calendar for fasting between dawn and sunset (7)

10 A hurt caused by a laceration of body tissues produced by a bullet or other weapon (5)

11 Daniel, oil prospector played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood (9)

12 One of three children at a birth (7)

14 Song by British singer/ songwriter Amy Winehouse from her 2006 album Back to Black (5)

15 To rub out or obliterate (5)

17 Smoke and ____ , misleading information serving to obscure the truth of a situation (7)

19 Gyles, broadcaster and comedian who wrote the royal biography Philip: The Final Portrait published in 2021 (9)

22 A sweet-smelling spice used in Indian cooking (5)

23 Heaven Is a Place ____ , song by US singer Belinda Carlisle released in 1987 (2,5)

24 A person who exhibits a dog at a show or trial (7)

25 A butterfly with dusky orange and brown chequered wing colours found in southern England (5,10)

DOWN

1 US actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC in 1865 (4,6,5)

2 An elevated structure by which a road or railway is carried over a valley or river (7)

3 An alkaloid drug used to relieve asthma and hay fever (9)

4 ____ merchant, a person who deals in discarded metal (5)

5 A steel sculpture of a giant spider created by French-US artist Louise Bourgeois (5)

6 A vernacular language used by Jewish people from Central and Eastern Europe (7)

7 Wind and solar power are examples of this natural resource (9,6)

9 Informal term for a very hot

day (7) 13 ____ Palace, the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury (7)

14 The passage in a tooth’s base through which nerves and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity (4,5)

16 A public walkway in Spanishspeaking countries, shaded with trees (7)

18 African country that contains the contiguous continent’s easternmost point (7)

20 ____ Vader, character in the original Star Wars trilogy played by David Prowse (5)

21 A pair of foot-operated cymbals forming part of a drum kit (2-3)

SOLUTION TOMORROW